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Global Forum for Health Research Annual Forum 2009, Havana, Cuba

 

The Global Health Programme co-organised together with the Consortium for Global Health Diplomacy a satellite conference entitled “Global Health Diplomacy – A New Challenge in Health and Foreign Policy” on 15 November. Consortium members presented research as to why and how countries engage in Global Health Diplomacy and delivered presentations on the potential and challenges of global health and global governance. 

Find the programme here [pdf] as well as the speaker's biographies[pdf].

All power point presentations of the satellite conference are now available! 

 

Professor Ilona Kickbusch,

Director, Global Health Programme Geneva, Switzerland 

Welcome & Introduction [pdf]

Keynote Address

Dr. José Luis Di Fabio,

Representative of Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO), USA 

The Relevance of Health Diplomacy in the PAHO Region [pdf]

Country Experience at the Interface of Health and Foreign Policy
 

Dr. Kristin Ingstad Sandberg,
Researcher and Research Coordinator,

Section for International Health,

University of Oslo, Norway 

The Experience of Norway [pdf]

Dr. Nelly Salgado,
Director, Global Health Programme, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
 

Global Health Diplomacy - The Way Forward
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hein,
Head, Research Programme on Global Health, Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany
 
Prof. Ronald Labonté,
Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada
 

Closing Keynote Address (on behalf of Minister José Gomes Temporão)


Dr. Paulo Buss,
Director, FIOCRUZ Center for Global Health, Brazil
 

 

Conference Session “Developing Research and Capacity Building in Global Health Diplomacy", 19 November, 2009

 
The second event on 19 November at the Annual Forum on “Developing Research and Capacity Building in Global Health Diplomacy - different regional and country perspectives" attracted more than 150 participants. The panel assembled a number of highly distinguished researchers and policy makers worldwide. By using regional and national perspectives, the interdisciplinary nature of research and capacity building in global health diplomacy was highlighted. Health Minister Chen Zhu, People’s Republic of China, delivered a keynote address on “China’s Perspective on Global Health Diplomacy”, the first major pronouncement of this kind on the subject from a Chinese Governmental representative. Further distinguished speakers included, amongst others, Dr. Anthony Mbewu, current President of the South African Medical Research Council and Executive-Director-elect of the Global Forum for Health Research.
 

 

(Prof. Ilona Kickbusch with Health Minister Chen Zhu,

People’s Republic of China, at the Annual Forum 2009, Habana, Cuba)

 
Find the conference session programme here [pdf] and the speakers' biographies [pdf].
 
All power point presentations of this event will here are now available!
 
 
Professor Ilona Kickbusch,
Director, Global Health Programme Geneva, Switzerland
 

Introduction and Welcome [pdf]

 

 Keynote Address

 

Professor Chen Zhu,
Minister of Health, People's Republic of China
 
coming soon!

 

Dr. Norka Ruiz-Bravo,
Advisor, Resource Mobilization for Research Policy, PAHO, USA
 
and

 

Dr. Lois Cohen,
Paul G Rogers Ambassador for Global Health Research, Paul G Rogers Society for Global Health Research, USA
 

PAHO and its Research Agenda for Global Health Diplomacy [pdf]

 

Dr. Miguel Gonzalez-Block,
Executive Director, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
 

A Central-American Regional Perspective: The Mesoamerican Public Health Institute [pdf]

 

Dr. Anthony Mbewu,
Executive Director, Global Forum for Health Research, Switzerland
 

A South African Perspective: Research and Capacity Building in Global Health Diplomacy [pdf]